How to Use time signature in a Sentence

time signature

noun

• That’s the time signature for at least the first half of this album: two rope turners and a jumper.
  — New York Times, 25 July 2022
• Our songs tend to be in time signatures other than 4/4 – like 6/8.
  — Ed Masley, azcentral, 6 Sep. 2019
• There are short lessons on time signature and melody and her favorite vocal warm-ups.
  — Arika Herron, Indianapolis Star, 4 May 2020
• The track heaves and stretches, its beat slipping through wild time signatures and then pausing for breath.
  — Randall Roberts, latimes.com, 25 May 2018
• The time signatures and rhythms contort like snakes in a bag (though sticking to 7/4 for a lot of it provides a strange cohesion).
  — Christopher R. Weingarten, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• Well, there’s lots of time signature parts that went into the writing of just me on an acoustic guitar.
  — Annie Zaleski, SPIN, 20 Sep. 2022
• According to the lawsuit -- which was filed Sept. 17 -- the two tracks have the same time signature and similar tempos.
  — Kristin Robinson, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2021
• Lage took his new music to Chicago, where Jeff Tweedy suggested tweaks — a chord alteration here, a change of time signature there.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
• The filmmakers reflected on how those musicians in the small mountain town of Barichara strummed guitars and the region’s 12-string tiple in a waltz time signature.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2021
• And each of the musical notes has a time signature associated with it.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2019
• Meanwhile, adding to the sense of crisis, albeit on a different time signature, Venice continues to sink as sea levels rise.
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
• That means there have been three alterations to the category count in just five years, and, honestly, a 5/3 time signature doesn’t exist for a reason.
  — Vulture, 16 June 2023
• In one song, the ensemble began with a steady rhythm before splitting into two clashing time signatures at once.
  — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
• Many bands mash up styles of music, types of instrumentation, or time signatures.
  — Jamie Ludwig, Chicago Reader, 2 May 2018
• Everything is off-balance, including the time signature, which is in 5/4.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2021
• In the throwback picture, which shows the couple at an HBO event, Rinna paired the chic garment with strappy black heels, simple silver earrings and her long-time signature haircut.
  — Zizi Strater, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2023
• Watts begins gently but instantly ramps up the intensity with a couple of snare cracks, shifting the time signature to lead up into the vocals.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 24 Aug. 2021
• Roeder decided to test Lage by abruptly altering the time signature in a standard to one from his native Peru.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
• Well, even nondrummers have to be in awe of his ability to turn percussion into a new dimension, with varied time signatures and tempos.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland, 12 Jan. 2020
• Evans strung some serpentine riffs over the tune’s unconventional time signature.
  — Dan Emerson, Twin Cities, 26 Dec. 2019
• The tricky 5-4 time signature provided an exciting extra kick.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Feb. 2021
• Ulicny achieves this by harnessing a twangy guitar and buoyant percussion that manically switch time signatures at whiplash speed.
  — Washington Post, 7 June 2019
• Irwin said that the characters’ runaway emotions are mirrored by the wildly fluctuating time signatures.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2024
• To determine the creativity of songs, Berg used an algorithm to measure features such as key, tempo, time signature and danceability.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2022
• By subjecting the space-time signature of every individual to spatial and social network analyses, Torrens can identify the sources of gridlock in both the crowd and the urban infrastructure.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• Yet Brubeck also was quite controversial at points, his experiments in unorthodox time signatures and cross-genre experiments drawing purists’ ire.
  — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 25 Nov. 2019
• Unlike the traditional 3/4 time signature common to corridos, and the 4/4 time signature prevalent in American popular music, this piece required a creative fusion.
  — Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 2 Feb. 2024
• The amalgamation of international styles influenced the group to experiment with unfamiliar sounds, unconventional pacing and uncommon time signatures for an upcoming album.
  — Raj Tawney, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024